School: Slane (B.) (roll number 4851)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cuánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 106
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- (continued from previous page)the mill with no head on him. The people who owned the mill were afraid and they got the priest. The priest sprinkled holy water where the man walked and he was never seen again. there is a quarry outside Slane and there is a story about it. There was a priest in Slane and he wanted stories. He went to the owner of the quarry to buy stones. The man was a protestant and he would not sell the stones. The priest got angry and he cursed the quarry and since that day to this there is water in the quarry. No one can get stones out of the quarry since.Michael Maloney
Slane
- There is a story about a man who worked in the Slane Mills. It happened that one day there was a Catholic meeting at Tara. This man who was not a Ctholic was asked to go to the meeting and he said he would go if he was knee deep in Papish blood. That evening he was going down the mill hill with a horse and cart with a load of hay. The horse ran a way and he was thrown(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Tallon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Slane, Co. Meath
